Monday, March 24, 2014

WAITING ON YOU by Kristan Higgins

Reviewed by name and email address:Gina Gina@loveromancesandmorereviews.com

For Colleen O’Rourke there has only been one man.Never mind she fell for Lucas Campbell back
in high school.One cannot dictate who
will capture another’s heart.But along
the way Lucas left, moved to Chicago
and did the unthinkable…he met and married another woman, Ellen.It wasn’t that he fell in love with her.Not even close.What he did do was come together with her in
a one night stand that resulted in a pregnancy.Sadly the pregnancy ended with the marriage soon to follow.But Lucas remained in Chicago, building his
career.

Colleen went on with her life, and along with her twin
brother, Connor, owns O’Rourke’s, the local Manningsport gathering place for a
cold brew.She also found her own niche
of a sorts in life—matchmaking.All told
she’s brought 15 happy couples together and is about to embark on number
16—Paulina “Paulie” Petrosinsky has her heart set on one Bryce Campbell…Lucas’s
cousin.

But Bryce has his own worries and concerns, not the least of
which is finding a job.Even more heart
wrenching is that his father, Joe, is dying.It is Joe’s illness that brings Lucas home and all it takes is one look
for Colleen’s heart to remember who makes her complete.While Colleen knows Lucas’s transgressions
she holds secrets he never knew, one that could tear the newly rejoined couple
apart.Does the heart truly know who it
needs most?

I had high expectations for Kristan Hannah’s latest, WAITING ON YOU.I found myself confused and
disappointed.In the earlier books in this series I thought
Colleen was a fantastic character and I enjoyed the dynamic between her and her
twin, Connor. That dynamic is still there but the chemistry I saw between her
and the other characters just wasn’t.The writing did not seem consistent to me.Sometimes it was an emotional adult women’s
fiction and at others it was like a juvenile was doing the writing.There were the kind of emotional outbursts
you’d expect from a pre-teen or young teen, not a mature adult and business
owner.

Rather than endearing in his ineptness Bryce was at times
annoying because he seemed lazy rather than bungling and at others he seemed
like he was emotionally delayed.Aside
from the fact that he was a hottie I really didn’t see what an accomplished
woman like Paulie would see in him.

The first half of the book is pretty much Colleen and
Lucas’s back-story and despite there being dialogue was really a lot of
telling.Had the book been written in
two parts – with part one their teenaged years where Colleen and Lucas first
fell in love and then part 2 with their reunion in the present day it would
have been a more interesting read.If I
hadn’t picked this book up for review I would have put it down during the first
50 pages and put it on the “do not finish” pile.

There were other issues that turned me off on the story –
there were far too many depressed people and incidents that, while they
resolved, were overshadowed by yet another depressing event.

I expected more for Colleen’s story.She was just such a great character and
pining away for Lucas just didn’t seem like the character I’d come to know in
earlier books.I’m not sure if I’ll go
on to read Connor’s story although I expect with his the series will come full
circle with a disclosure similar to another character’s in book 1.

Fans of Kristan Hannah will either love or hate this
one.For readers new to her, if you read
this one first, don’t give up on her because her earlier books are dynamite.

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